Canon EOS Rumors

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1) If there is a camera tomorrow, it’s the closest guarded camera I’ve run into. None of my CR3 sources have said a thing. I don’t initiate contact with them, I just wait for emails. Nothing has shown up.

2) DigitalREV had a post on their twitter account that tomorrow was about a workshop and not a camera launch. That twitter post has since been removed, what’s that mean?

3) We still have the missing camera ID from the 1D Mark IV firmware.

4) 1D Mark IV reviews are getting out fast from folks.

5) I can’t believe Canon is going to WPPI with a Rebel T2i, a 70-200 f/2.8L IS II and nothing else. They have the biggest booth at the event.

I won’t be sleeping tonight. I hope our CR2 stuff comes to pass, but I’m fully prepared to eat crow at this point.

Just going to develop some film (gah! film!), and wait for my email sound to chime. New EOS-1v? :)

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  • red or white wine with that crow? Looking forward to a camera announcement, or at least a lens….c’mon Canon.

  • This just in, Canon announces they are halting production of their entire Digital SLR line.

    “We are sick of people whining every time we release a new model,” said a Canon spokesman. “We can’t announce anything without Fake Chuck Westfall proclaiming it’s the end of life as we know it and if I hear one more complaint about the size of our sensors I swear I’ll go postal on someone’s ass.

    In the mean time can I interest you in one of our new photocopiers?”

  • One of the posters on another thread said that there would be an announcement on 10 March, something about a FF 60D being positioned below the 5DMkII. Isn’t that about the time of WPPI?

  • If they just happened to announce a release date for the 5Dmk2 firmware to go with that lens I think we’d all be smiling (or potentially crow feasting, if that way inclined.)

  • You may just want to get some sleep. I know I will. Don’t worry about crow. I don’t think there was ever a cr3 on this…

  • Sorry, you’re so misinformed…

    I just got it from my neighbourg, who works as a janitor at Canon. He is 100% affirmative that tomorrow the long awaited 14-1200 f0,8 DO IS TSE zoom will at last be announced.

  • We at Canon have learned our lesson. Cramming too many pixels onto our camera sensors has resulted in loss of face and loss of market share.

    Yes, we know that Nikon’s D3s can take photos of the 1D IV in a completely dark room.

    Tomorrow we announce the 1DsIV. Finally, the 1 series will get it right – we offer exactly one pixel. HAH! Try beating that, Nikon!!! What a glorious sized pixel. What perfectly sharp binary images are produced. Even Galbraith, curse the devil, won’t be able to find anything in the 1DsIV that is out of focus!

    Hah! We win again! Buy Canon and be contented!!

  • by the way Bob, I am only half making fun of you. I have marked March 10th on my calendar as the day i’ve been waiting for. .

    i hope that poster is right!

  • My 5D2 takes perfectly fine photos. I love the lenses that I have.

    Why, then, do I check this site twice a day? Then read the comments? I guess watching Canon is, in itself, a hobby — as much as I’m embarrassed to admit it.

  • I’m just hoping for some new lenses, but the ones i want will likely be launched with a 1 series camera.

  • Your not the only one. Although, part of the reason why I frequent canon rumors on a daily basis is the hope of seeing the headline “24p Firmware for 5D2 Arrives!” or something like that.

  • I wasn’t planning on buying anything before the end of March anyway, so waiting doesn’t cost me anything.

  • Production on all canon dslr will be halted indefinitely until issues with the direct print button are resolved

  • If a camera is going to be released and it’s so closely guarded odds are it’s going to be something new and revolutionary – I hope to see a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera with APS-C sized sensor!

  • This is too funny; first, Nikon Rumors gets it wrong with a press release about previously released cameras, and now it looks like all the “excitement” on the Canon side may have been about a press release about new printers.

    Both Nikon and Canon fans can say they were faked out.

    BTW, I do not in any way blame the CR or NR admins for this; they do very well in keeping track of all these rumors. But rumors are just that, and some will not pan out.

  • i was waiting in this site a news about 60D, maybe the admin don’t believe that their is a 60D, a 5D MK I sensor tweak to shoot high ISO and Video. New 11 point AF, Slightly smaller than 5D, a @850 killer and Entry Level FF. price @ $1900. it will be the evolution of XXD series for its Anniversary on May 10, 2010, May 10 is the shipment date.

  • I hope the 1DsIV will come today. We are talked about a lot, so that’s the time when the 1Ds should be announced.

  • I love statements like this. The Canon Rumor guy should introduce a CR4 rating to classify such rock solid sources : )

  • I hope this means that they are implementing some serious new technology.
    Like a Digic VI sensor.
    Full frame of an entirely new dimension (square?).
    Entirely new auto focus using some form of pulse laser.

  • If i was the announcer for canon during a press release, i’d request a rebel with a custom t3i badge to hold up to the crowd, just to mess around to get a couple shocks. Then id whip out 2 1ds mark 4s with a 24-70 2.8 is attached and 14-24mm 2.8 attached on the other.

  • I’m surprised no-one is wanting in-body image stabilisation. CR showed a patent for it so how long will it be before Canon offer it?
    There don’t seem to be many opportunities to differentiate a 550D from a 60D but that would be one.

  • (CR3) I bet Canon announce something to do with photography. Or possibly consumer electronics.

  • hi, i´ll drive to a “movie-event” to calumet-photo in munich.
    there are guys from chrosziel, dedo-light an… canon. i`ll ask the canon guys! maybe they got some new nice stuff….. maybe. i´m there in 2 hours. i`ll give u feedback.
    cheers

  • ..edit: Demotag Video SLR mit Canon, Dedolight und Chrosziel
    Date: Di, 23. Februar, 10-17 Uhr

  • yea and that would be the FF 1Dmark4

    besides ‘canon world’ might very well be you again reposting as someone else.

    the xxd series is targeted at serious amateurs. making it FF at this point would catapault its price over the top.

    what a load of tosh.

  • I think that Canon has developed some very effective ways of information control (as with 7D case) and is planning to use it on regular basis.

  • How about a direct print button for HD video that prints all frames, one after another, in all their glorious resolution?

  • You forgot the “L” and “USM”. Nobody is going to buy the thing if it comes with a micromotor.

  • Who cares about 1Ds IV? It will be so expensive and we already know more or less that it will be 32mpix etc. I am only interested in lenses as I am seriously thinking about 35 1.4 and its last one from 14-100mm prime lenses which was not upgraded yet. Want it desperately :) 1.2 would be awesome but I would be happy about 1.4 II as well :)

  • yeah! I kinda trust him loads. He is right about loads of things – CR3. He can’t predict small stuff like when exactly the T2i was coming out… but he sounds quite sure that the 1DS will be out.

    In fact… I’m CERTAIN it will come out! A pro camera deserves to go to a huge booth… right? I’m not so sure about a 60D coming to such a huge Canon booth…

    And anyway, the T2i took the place of 60D since there is not much Canon can imrpove over the 50D. Video is on the T2i, everything else is on the 7D… Hehe :P

  • Hey… a FF 60D is a good idea. Canon could score big with that. I mean… Nikon…?! XD No way. But there ain’t much else that they can improve on the 50D… Video is on the T2i and everything else is on the 7D :O

  • The WPPI is only a small, special fair. No big thing for Canon. No need to announce lots of new stuff.

    The biggest far for photo stuff (around 15 times bigger then WPPI) this year is the Photokina in Cologne, Germany (September).

  • CR4 would be good :)

    But even with very good information in our hands we don’t trust much on final decisions taken by Canon until they are “official”…

    The unofficial matter is very wide (we’re not talking about rumors)… more than one could expect indeed.

  • This camera will be a welcome extension to the Canon line. There are many, myself included, who will not drop the $8-9000 needed to move into this line, but that is not why we ALL want this camera. The technology at the top end of the line trickles down to the bottom end of the line. Whether you want to purchase a T2i or a 7D or go for the gusto and buy a1D, the high-end drives the bottom end. For that reason, this is a welcome camera that we all need to clamor for.

    Lastly, I have loved Canons since my father bought an AE-1 in Okinawa when I was a kid. I hate not seeing Canon in the lead throughout the line. They need to stay on top because I want to see a line of white lenses on the sidelines and NO BLACK LENSES! ;-)

  • im on this one too XD +1
    however, since it’s very closely guarded, it could be nothing at all…. or…. it could be something very2 special that would blow all of us away.

  • I dont think it in body IS would happen, Canon has invested far too much to lens stabilizer system.

    Eventhough it would be great for prime lens shooter, having two system at once would make the other one redundant and people opted to buy the non IS version of the lens… which means cheaper canon lenses or most third party lenses.

    Canon would be financialy hurt by this move i recon… although it is great to see Sony has done such things; their nice lenses are way expensive and I dont think the in body IS offers as much efficiency as the canon implementation.

  • Thats Life…
    I expected nothing!

    Think follow ups of Nikon Camaras will Kick some …
    thats why Canon is in Panic and will not show anything!
    Canon Poor Marketing…
    Nothing simalar to an D700 or next D800….!
    Shame another 3D is not possible for now.
    They can do it so much better!
    A 1D IV is overpriced !

    my 2 Cents

  • Yeah, Canon is in a panic because Sony released awesomely ugly mockups of future cams with no definite release date while Nikon released some previously announced paperware. Winnar.

  • The problem may be the price gap between 550D and 7D. Some people want more rugged body, more FPS, AF microadjust and more, but don’t want/need to invest so much into 7D…

  • who the hell needs sony or nikon….
    but again, there is nothing simalar to a D700!
    This must be changed!
    I never will change from Canon, b/c of my Lenses….

  • Yeah I agree… so a 60D would have Mg alloy body, about… say 5 point something fps? 7D is at 7 fps right? So 60D will have to be something in between. But Im thinking that the 60D is delayed mostly due to the T2i. Perhaps it will have an articulating screen, WAY better high ISO performance [due to the swivel screen] and 50D’s autofocus system. AND stay at 15 mp. Surely they wont increase it… they would have learnt that jacking up MPs wont improve sales for this segment i guess. Enthusiasts wont see the beauty of 20mp aps-c haha!

    Sorry; getting long winded.

  • Oh… I didn’t know that. Perhaps Photokina will have the 60D if Canon’s advancement in technology goes well :D I’m hoping for Dig!c 5 and better low light capabilities for a swivel screen on a 60D! :D

  • I wouldn’t hold my breath – Canon does the bare minimum to be good enough among the competition. With the release for Photokina, however, the bare minimum must be more than 1D MK4 + FF and more pixels (if they wish to have a run for 2.5-3 years).

    So, if this spring, nothing more than the 1D MK4 with FF and more pixels.

  • I just love how nobody is pleased with what they have when there is the possibility of something new. At one point people were stoked for the 5DMK2, but then almost immediately decided that it wasn’t good enough b/c of the 7D. Hilarious.

    I think people, especially in the USA need to learn to buy something and be happy with it. Use it for a few years, then get excited about buying something new. Sometimes it makes me sick that people in this country rack up huge credit card debt for toys that, for some, serve no other purpose than allowing them to say they own the latest and greatest.. then they take s*** photos with the camera anyways.

    If people spent more than 3 months “testing” the High ISO and frame rate on b/s subjects, they might actually learn to use their camera.

    I could go on flickr right now and click on the 1DMK4 photos link and see a bunch of garbage, then click on a 20D link and see beautiful work. I just think its funny that even when someone has an $8K setup in a 1DsMK3, they still have out of focus shots, and crap images in poor lighting… but at least they have award winning AF, low High ISO noise, the ability to shoot at 6400 ISO, dual CF slots, and dual DIGIC processors. Oh, and dont forget their 2 billion megapixel plat of real estate for their garbage shots at 10fps..

    I shoot with a 5DMK2, and even though the AF isn’t super fast, and I can’t just spray and pray through sports shots, I can still walk on a basketball court, plan my shots, and manage to get some great work. But I guess that comes with knowledge and experience. I didnt even have a 1DMK3 to do it with! Besides, even if you had 60 AF points, what would be the odds that you’d get exactly the focal point you’re looking for while using large apertures for creative DOF without selecting only 1 or 2 AF points?

    Food for thought.

  • I just love how nobody is pleased with what they have when there is the possibility of something new. At one point people were stoked for the 5DMK2, but then almost immediately decided that it wasn’t good enough b/c of the 7D. Hilarious.

    I think people, especially in the USA need to learn to buy something and be happy with it. Use it for a few years, then get excited about buying something new. Sometimes it makes me sick that people in this country rack up huge credit card debt for toys that, for some, serve no other purpose than allowing them to say they own the latest and greatest.. then they take s*** photos with the camera anyways.

    If people spent more than 3 months “testing” the High ISO and frame rate on b/s subjects, they might actually learn to use their camera.

    I could go on flickr right now and click on the 1DMK4 photos link and see a bunch of garbage, then click on a 20D link and see beautiful work. I just think its funny that even when someone has an $8K setup in a 1DsMK3, they still have out of focus shots, and crap images in poor lighting… but at least they have award winning AF, low High ISO noise, the ability to shoot at 6400 ISO, dual CF slots, and dual DIGIC processors. Oh, and dont forget their 2 billion megapixel plat of real estate for their garbage shots at 10fps..

    I shoot with a 5DMK2, and even though the AF isn’t super fast, and I can’t just spray and pray through sports shots, I can still walk on a basketball court, plan my shots, and manage to get some great work. But I guess that comes with knowledge and experience. I didnt even have a 1DMK3 to do it with! Besides, even if you had 60 AF points, what would be the odds that you’d get exactly the focal point you’re looking for while using large apertures for creative DOF without selecting only 1 or 2 AF points?

    Food for thought.

  • I completely agree. but you must also understand that it is the US consumer that drives much of the manufacturing and R&D in the consumer electronic world. without those spendthrifts there will be much less cash for canon and the like. that would mean less funding for R&D, and less progress. afterall if the market were super reticent about spending, we would still be shooting film. the professional market aint big enough.

    so spend spend spend! :D pay for progress so poor folk like I can upgrade when some cash floats along

  • 7D is 8fps IIRC and XXD line has been 6,3fps (at least 40D and 50D were 6,3fps). Also XXD line have all focus points cross-type, Mg alloy body, selection ring on the back, top display, more fine ISO steps and so on…

    So definitely worth thinking of, if you don’t want to invest in 7D bud Rebel line-up does limit your work.

    They will probably put in the 18Mpix sensor as well, although I’d love to see 15MPix stay, or maybe decrease to 12Mpix in tradeoff for better ISO performace. That would put two different cameras: 7D for those of need large res images, great AF, fast FPS and 60D for those, who want higher usable ISO levels and lower price.

    But, that me either getting long winded, it’s not going to happen :)

  • I said a few things last week…

    All is said but not all is correct.

    and, I told you that I had not received an invitation.

    Add this to the fact that I couldn’t spoil anything over the weekend…. I am sorry and I still do not have any news….

  • and I instead want to see all sorts of colored lenses. competition is great and keeps companies inovating. thankfully the sun is setting on canon’s dominance giving consumer access to better pricess and gear and making all companies inovate faster and better. competition is good and if canon was the sole provider of all photography equipment, you’ll all be shooting with a faulty AF camera that leaks oil all over the sensor and costs $8K…oh wait.

  • sadly the problem is that many of these internet guys aren’t photographers but instead are tech-thusiasts. they feel insulted when the inevitable model from the competition or within canon outdoes their current gear and fall into depression because they worship the brand instead of using the gear.

    People should be used to this by now. no camera will stay dominant for more than just a few months. better models will always come out and no company will ever again be the big undisputed king of the hill. those times are gone and good riddance since competition is great for the industry. enjoy the gear you have and forget about these endless upgrade ups and downs.

  • What if the camera was tested at the Winter Olympics and issues were found that will take time to address?

  • This years PMA was just more proof that Nikon won’t do anything without Canon’s leadership! D400 is ready to ship. They took it back to the drawing board when they realized they needed something better than their old crusty rebadged crap to compete in the Semi-Pro Market. They will release several tempting offerings this year after they see what Canon does with the 60D and 1DS4. Their method of trying to one-up after the Indistry standard is set keeps their Lemmings buying more inferior junk thinking it’s so good when it’s yesterdays news. Just like that other company that chooses to copy rather than innovate! It’s the only reason Kodak is still in business. Nikon is still so pitifull that they are still using everybodyeles tech in their latestest greatest offerings. The historical facts are undeniable. One good product out of 300 does not make you superior! How anyone can be so blind to rush out and buy yeserdays technology just doesn’t make any logical sense. The only logical announcement they have left for all of 2010 is ro tell the work their moving their headquaters ro Framce or Canada! Okay nuff said. We all know how inferior they are.

  • Yeap! just large printers :D
    1Ds4 is not ready yet.
    Its sensor and algorithm are still testing in Tohoku.
    Stay tuned …

  • Btw – I have over 700 on there for your viewing pleasure. Unfotunately I probably have at least another 1000 on my computer that you won’t be able to see yet at this time, but I guess I spend more time taking pictures than spending time on the web bickering. Just get frustrated once in a while.

  • It isn’t really appropriate for this info, but my wife just walked by and seen the word blogger on the monitor. In her eyes, she actually seen booger, and asked me why I was reading about boogers. I haven’t laughed so hard in a few weeks.

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